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Uluwahu Paenima (Sinhala)

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Uluwahu_Paenima_Translation.pdf (250.18 KB)
The Uluwahu Paenima: A Translation into English by Bonnie G. MacDougall
Uluwahu_Paenima.pdf (3.37 MB)
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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/8360
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MacDougall South Asian Architecture Collection
Abstract

The Uluwahu Paenima is a undated popular liturgal manual written in Sinhala and circulated as an inexpensive chapbook for popular consumption in Sri Lanka. It contains verses and invocations to be recited in crossing the threshold, an important South Asian dwelling consecration rite. It is part of a genre of popular works on housebuilding composed in the modern languages of South Asia.

Date Issued
2007-10-23T20:27:54Z
Keywords
Architecture, Domestic Sri Lanka, Sinhalese (Sri Lankan peoples), South Asian
Type
pamphlet

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